The thumbprint clocking in and out represented regimentalism that is pointless, because the nature of her work is anything but regimental anyway. Her work required irregular hours, while the unappreciative management requires her to clock in as regularly as possible, as if afraid that she would steal time off. Ridiculous! It was getting harder and [...]

Some interesting quotes below to share from ‘Stillness Speaks’ by Eckhart Tolle. The book’s ideas are not totally about Buddhism, but not really not totally not about it either. There are some parts I disagree with, while I appreciate its occasional acknowledgment where some ideas are clearly inspired by Buddhism – because this would lead [...]

In the movie ‘Blood: The Last Vampire’, it was suggested to Saya (the half-vampire human) by her teacher that (vampirical) demons have no souls (in the sense that they have no conscience and are thus not redeemable or worth sparing), that ‘heaven’ put them in our world to test our virtues. Now, how virtuous can such [...]

After collecting about a dozen ‘Batman Black & White’ statues, which are released periodically into the market, I decided to give up. Okay, lest you mistaken, these are really statues worthy of showcasing – individually hand-painted porcelain ones – not tiny plastic action figures. They cost about SDG$100 each. I started collecting them because they [...]

Because ‘I’ am part of this world, Because ‘I’ am interconnected with this world, Because ‘I’ am seamless with this world, ‘I’ am an illusion in the world. Notes: (On CPR Picture) Where do ‘you’ begin? Without the world, ‘you’ cannot be. E.g. Without your interconnection to the air in the world, ‘you’ will ‘cease’ [...]

Not too hard or it would be painful Not to soft or it would be sagging Not too high or it would lift too much Not to low or it would not lift the butt Not too in or it would make you lean backwards Not too out or it would make you lean forwards [...]

A Tit for a Tat (9) Tit: Do you think my sms reply was okay? Tat: Well, it depends on how she reads it… Tit: Huh? Tat: … just like how you replied depended on how you read her sms! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/only-for-now Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/electronic-bad-faith

A Tit for a Tat [8] Tit: Oh… how convenient it is, to communicate through email, to let others take their time to read and reply! Tat: Oh… how convenient it is, to not communicate through email, by saying one was too busy to read or reply! Next aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/06/depends-on-how-you-read-reality Previous aT4aT: http://moonpointer.com/new/2009/04/its-normal-weather

True confidence arises only when one becomes one with the true/truth.* – Stonepeace * Total confidence is attained by realising the total truth, when one becomes fully enlightened – a Buddha

Haunted by ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ is about a fickle guy, who is so scrooge-ly with his love, that he doesn’t really develop genuine affection for anyone, while he plays ‘love’ as a game. That’s right, Conner’s a playboy, and that’s wrong! So much faith does he have that romances are [...]

Whoever you are, you were my… dearest mother dearest father  dearest brother dearest sister  dearest son  dearest daughter Whoever we are, we are one another’s… dearest mother sentient beings dearest father sentient beings dearest brother sentient beings dearest sister sentient beings dearest son sentient beings dearest daughter sentient beings  This is why, from Chapter Eight of the Lankavatara Sutra: The Blessed One [Buddha] said this [...]

I stood afar gazing at the world’s largest Buddhist stupa (of many other stupas) ever built. A monument that was once hidden and forgotten, like a cautionary tale of the Dharma which it represents can be lost in ravages of time. Will all majestic Buddhist monuments in world be shrouded too in time, covered in [...]

A student asked a Vegetarian Society friend, ‘If animals are not here to be eaten, what are they here for?’ I replied, ‘Maybe you could reply with a reflective question - ”If you are not here to be eaten by man-eating tigers, what are you here for? As Alice Walker put it,  ‘The animals of the world exist [...]

I was at a inter-religious gathering. To my surprise, there were meat dishes served at the buffet dinner, though there were vegetarian selections too. I wonder why the meat was ‘needed’. Surely, it is to satisfy sensual craving for meat only, because there is no religion (present) that advocates the eating of meat as a [...]

I was chatting with someone from another faith, who asked about the Buddhist perspective of the end of the world in terms of ‘Judgement Day’. My reply (hereupon improved) was that – (1) we are ‘judged’ impartially from day to day by the impersonal law of karma - sometimes instantly (yes, as Lennon sung, ‘instant karma’s gonna get [...]